Hitchcock - the man and the movies

Looks good. The acting looks fantastic.

Looks watchable at least.

Trying to resume my long delayed Hitchcock countdown.

Stage Fright (1950)

Surprisingly good. Really liked Wyman for the most part, though Alastair Sim pretty much stole every scene for me. And so a Hicthcock film features a man on the run wrongfully accused of murder, except...

Spoiler:

Can't blame Hitch for not pulling such a small twist again otherwise peeps might expect it. Lesson: Never believe a flashback sequence when the "wrongfully accused" character explains it.

Notorious
Rebecca
Lifeboat
Rope
Foreign Correspondent
Stage Fright
Spellbound
Suspicion
The Paradine Case
Under Capricorn
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Well I'm certainly interested in a Hitch discussion, but what aspect of the man do you want to focus on?

His lovely pair of tits.

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Its an irrelevant criticism anyway, any work of art will be a reflection of the realities of the day.

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Oh Bidisha. Wouldn't wanna be ya.

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I have to eat in a couple of hours, Ambler...

Do they read de Sade in Illinois?

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Erica Ambler wrote:

For sometime now, Prisoner Monkeys and I have been working on a remake of that piece of shit Vertigo. We got rid of its rampant misogyny and made it sexier for the burgeoning teen market. We introduced plenty of social justice to attract the Hollywood A-listers and now we have an exciting and topical plot direction. It's fresh and new yet still remains true to the original.

High fucking five.

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An 18-year-old woman who was apparently "obsessed with necrophilia," has been accused of having three-way sex on top of the corpses of two men she and her sexual partners allegedly murdered.

A police investigation into a brutal double murder in the town of Joliet, Illinois is said to have found that the bodies of 22-year-olds Eric Glover and Terence Rankins were placed in a pile after being strangled, so that Alisa Massaro could lie on them to have sex.

One of the men in the group of accused murderers, 24-year-old Joshua Miner, apparently said he was the long-term boyfriend of Massaro, adding that “for years back she wanted to have sex with a dead guy”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/necrophiliaobsessed-girl-among-double-murder-accused-in-threeway-sex-case-8513472.html

I like it. Just a few suggestions...


50 Cent or Sean "Puffy" Combs as Scottie Ferguson
Ellen Page as Judy/Madeline
Chris Hemsworth as Elster
Rosie Huntington Whiteley as Midge

Directed by J.J. Abrams, Paul Haggis or Bryan Singer
Score by John Ottman
Theme song by Ariana Grande and One Direction (lots of money-making potential when the soundtrack is released)

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Last Hitch feature I watched was "Shadow of a Doubt". Such an underrated gem. I love the atmosphere, and the way the library scene was shot is masterful film-making.
Hitch also gives California a near magical property.

And it has Teresa Wright.





OOOGGNNN.....

Erica Ambler wrote:

Seems Disney is interested in a whole slate of Hitch-inspired movies so Prisoner Monkeys will be pitching this update of Psycho:

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Teenager 'lost virginity to mother's corpse' after killing her with a hammer

I'm thinking Ryan Gosling as Kevin Davis, Halle Berry as Mother.

Eli Roth presents...

Salomé wrote:

Last Hitch feature I watched was "Shadow of a Doubt". Such an underrated gem. I love the atmosphere, and the way the library scene was shot is masterful film-making.
Hitch also gives California a near magical property.

Underrated indeed. And it's unfortunate because it's one of his best films. I think it's miles ahead of NORTH BY NORTHWEST and even PSYCHO.

I like SHADOW OF A DOUBT, but it's ruined Dimitri Tiomkin's awful score. For that alone I'd never put it above PSYCHO or NORTH BY NORTHWEST.

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Control wrote:

Erica Ambler wrote:

Seems Disney is interested in a whole slate of Hitch-inspired movies so Prisoner Monkeys will be pitching this update of Psycho:

Quote :

Teenager 'lost virginity to mother's corpse' after killing her with a hammer

I'm thinking Ryan Gosling as Kevin Davis, Halle Berry as Mother.

Eli Roth presents...

Salomé wrote:

Last Hitch feature I watched was "Shadow of a Doubt". Such an underrated gem. I love the atmosphere, and the way the library scene was shot is masterful film-making.
Hitch also gives California a near magical property.

Underrated indeed. And it's unfortunate because it's one of his best films. I think it's miles ahead of NORTH BY NORTHWEST and even PSYCHO.

"North by Northwest" was a very well-made film, but I always deemed it a Hollywood rehashing of "The 39 Steps", which I much prefer.

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http://jamesbondmemes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/north-by-northwest-bond-connections.html

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Frenzy

what can I say but for a start you have a fine opening shot of London. For someone who cares about such things, the glimpse of old London is something. Such as the shots of Covent Garden back in its market days.
As for the film itself, it's not too bad but it doesn't feel right. More like any British made film of the era than a Hitchcock film. For what it's worth Ron Goodwin, a quiet favourite of mine, does enough of a job but I'd like to re-listen 'out of movie' to get a better taste.
And then there's Barry Foster. Part of me will always think of him in his Battle of Britain role ("SILENCE! In Polish!") but here he's on form. Reading about him ended up making me want to seek out Twisted Nerve.
Overall not a bad film but as I say not vintage Hitchcock. The inspector and what passes as dinner were good, the villain risable, the innocent man so-so and the locations, good.

A 'shout-out' to Foster's scene in the lorry as he tries to find his pin and fighting the stiff foot of the corpse.

I like FRENZY a lot more than TORN CURTAIN, MARNIE or even THE BIRDS. I always find it fascinating to watch, say, VERTIGO and then follow it with something like FRENZY. The shift is unbelievable. And it's not like the type of the shift that you'd find with THE 39 STEPS vs. VERTIGO. Something had gone seriously wrong at the end of his career.

Hitchcock was a tragic case. One of the 20th century's greatest and most successful artists, brought down by pop music and the short attention spans of teenage theater goers.